Bjarne Mädel as a parcel deliverer in “Delivered”, the ARD Wednesday film.
There are films in which there is no wrong tone. “Sörensen hat Angst” with Bjarne Mädel, who also directed, was such a film. And there are films that you want to write “tried hard” in your certificate because the tone and details are so often off the mark. “Delivered” by Jan Fehse (script and direction) has a serious topic, the exploitation of parcel carriers, but doesn’t want to be as dark and hopeless as Ken Loach’s social drama “Sorry We Missed You”. That’s why Bjarne Mädel has to climb up floor after floor, sweating and panting, as if in a comedy – but you read the note “Delivery to the first lockable door” with practically every shipment. He wears glasses like Atze Schröder, which causes the second alienation.
Twelve hours on the road
Volker Feldmann was a soccer coach, was fired, and was hired as a “parcel slave” in his distress. His alcoholic wife has left, the 16-year-old son Benny, Julius Schuck, lives with him. The boy has demands, but the money his father earns is almost enough for nothing, at least not for a class trip for 350 euros. In addition, Feldmann delivers parcels twelve hours a day and is therefore rarely at home. Benny’s transfer is already in jeopardy. And already he’s building more crap.
But why does Feldmann need twelve hours to deliver parcels? Because, unlike his presumably smarter colleagues, he also climbs up to the twelfth floor? It is because he is the good person in the delivery service: that he chats with lonely people, that he screws old Frau Stolte’s fuse back in – or discusses with young snobbies who order from the wine trade on the ground floor so that the messenger can give them the heavy ones Carries cardboard boxes upstairs and then complains to the boss. This is another problem with “Delivered”: Some minor characters are the walking cliché.
There is a delicate story in the center, between the policewoman Lena, Anne Schäfer, who has lost her husband, and Volker, who has lost a friend in him. The two are standing together in the cemetery. But by no means would Lena make a traffic ticket disappear for Volker for driving too fast. For this she gets him a legal advisor. Shepherd and girl let you feel that Lena and Volker like each other, but leave it in the balance as to whether there will be more of it. After all, that’s something in a film that spells out everything else.
“Delivered” , ARD, 8:15 p.m.
